Frame

A frame is a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction.

Frame and FRAME may also refer to:

Engineering and construction

A-Frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
- A-Frame house, a house following the same principle
Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
- Motorcycle frame, main component of a motorcycle, onto which other components are fitted
Door frame or window frame, structures fixed to buildings, vehicles or other containers to which the hinges of doors or windows are attached and can be locked shut
Frame (aircraft), structural rings in an aircraft fuselage
Frame (loudspeaker) or basket, a structural component which supports the functional components of a loudspeaker
Frame (nautical), skeleton of a ship
Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
Vehicle frame, to which everything on an automobile is mounted
Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building
Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
Lever frame, a railway signalling device containing interlocks for signals, points (railroad switches) etc.
Locomotive frame, section on engine frames
The frame or receiver, one of the basic parts of a modern firearm
Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight materials
Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber

Frame as a synonym for the human body, especially in poetic context
Bed frame
Climbing frame, a children's attraction in parks
Distribution frame in telecommunications
Eyeglass frame
Frame, for definition of terms "frames" in games: bowling and snooker
Frame (surname)
Hive frame, a structural element that holds honeycomb
Frame (dance), a connection between lead and follow in partner dancing
Frame (magazine), design magazine from the Netherlands
Framing (social sciences), terminology used in communication theory and sociology, where it relates to the contextual presentation of media content
Frame tale, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
Spinning frame
Water frame

FRAME Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
Frame Overo, a coat pattern in horses
Reading frame divides a sequence of nucleotides into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets.
Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription.
Frame analysis, a social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities.

Basis, an ordered basis is also called a "frame"
Frame bundle, in mathematics is a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle
Frame of reference, the set of coordinates in which a system is observed
Frame of a vector space, a generalization of a basis to sets of possibly linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
Frames and locales, in order theory
K-frame, a generalization of a basis to linearly independent sets of vectors that need not span the space
Moving frame, in differential geometry
Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
Projective frame, in projective geometry
Sampling frame, a set of items or events possible to measure (statistics)

A Mainframe Computer
Frame (artificial intelligence), machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation
Frame (GUI), a box used to hold other widgets in a graphical user interface
A data structure in frame languages
Frame (networking), a data transmission unit or network packet that includes frame synchronization information
Frame problem, in artificial intelligence
Frame rate, the number of frames—or images—displayed on screen per unit of time, usually expressed in frames per second (FPS)
framing, the application of networking frames using Frame synchronization
Frame Technology (software engineering), a models-to-code system based on adaptable frames
Framing (World Wide Web), a method of displaying multiple HTML documents on one page of a web browser
- Iframes, a frame element in HTML code
Stack frame, a part of a call stack
Page frame, available chunk of memory

E-frame, in the animated science fiction series Exosquad
Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
Frame (1971–1990), a book of collected poetry by Barrett Watten, published in 1997
Frames (Oceansize album), a 2007 album by Oceansize
Frames (Lee DeWyze album), a 2013 album by Lee DeWyze
Frame (journal), a literary journal from the Netherlands
"Frame" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Reframing (filmmaking), in film and programming
The Frames, an Irish rock band